Jim Pyke

I've spent 30+ years helping build & maintain a positive & uplifting culture of service in my workplace. Every one of us needs to get better at: •asking "How can I help?" •saying "I need help" •asking empathic questions •listening to the answers, & •focusing on responding instead of just reacting

Just a couple of really cool guys having some fun before they both die. Remember to have some fun before you die 💖

#a2council Let's keep on moving in the right direction.

#a2council The alternative here is to notice that we're all living this city w/ a significant degree of intimacy, & that we could choose to literally sit down together, discuss issues of concern in good faith w/ each other, & then collaboratively work toward universally beneficial compromises.

I'm calling it here, #a2council, the bandshell in Sterling Heights' Dodge Park looks way more functional than ours in West Park. If we can't fit something like this in West Park (& use it w/o annoying the neighbors there), maybe Vets Park might work?

My new favorite #a2council meme

I am once again asking residents of Ann Arbor who seem angry about change, to join those of us who see in change possibilities that could lead to a better future. We can embrace change together creatively & work w/ our #a2council government to help the changes we make turn out as good as possible.

May the gods help us if this guy is elected mayor. I say this as an atheist. There will be no one who can help us if this guy is elected mayor.

Wow this suuuuuuucks😢 How can she not have worked out some kind of reply to a question like this by now? Honestly it could be as simple as, "I will accept support from absolutely anyone because candidates need tons of money & other support to win elections now, & my goal is to win." But instead…

"Life can change just like that"... including changing from someone who can say this into the absolute piece of human garbage the Lindsey Graham just died as.

My contribution to this morning's impoliteposting about Lindsey Graham...

...if so I just want to say: respect, because that is some serious sādhu level of devotion to trying to distract everyone from the Epstein files.

#a2council fact 1: change is inevitable fact 2: property owners are free to sell their property Those impacted by these 2 facts can choose from at least 2 options: 1. participate in helping the sale of a property result in beneficial change 2. angrily refuse to accept the veracity of facts 1 & 2

If a politician says they support [x] we *must* ask: What specific policy measures in support of [x] will you put forward if elected? Also: How will you pay for that? If they don't answer with *specifics*, #a2council, then tell them – to their faces – you won't vote for them w/o hearing specifics.

I was about to drop this as a comment elsewhere, but then remembered that it would just make the account owner & their followers angry... We could all benefit from improving our skills in the areas of setting/negotiating reasonable boundaries & respecting the reasonable boundaries that others set.

Always true.

Hey, #a2council, does anyone know if any of our local anti-change activists are playing the Summer Game? I can't help but wonder if they're writing any weird stuff on their game code yard signs.

After more than a decade of waiting, I am now finally holding this in my hands!

Regarding mayoral candidate Rabhi's new Klein's Lot video... #a2council

"Blue Origin"? More like "Orange and Yellow Finale" amirite?

Oh well. #a2council

The bad news from various fronts in academia appears to just keep on coming. 😞😞😞

#a2council it's clear that to Rabhi public/private partnerships are (for brevity I'll say) "bad." That position is dumb. If what we want as progressives is to have more control over the bad behaviors of private economic entities, shouldn't we want to form partnerships — in order to get more control?

WaPo editorial board (on behalf of their boss) to AOC: I know you are, but what am I?